Jorge Luis Borges. "Circular Ruins" And "The Library of Babel"
Circular Ruins
"Tacitum man" manages to reach a hidden ruin that use to be an ancient temple. While he is at the temple, he falls asleep and has a dream about an imaginary man. eventually he keeps getting sleepless nights and is frustrated that he couldn't dream anymore and he was extremely restless. He then made his son through the dreams. But he finds out that his son is only a imaginative thought of someone else's dream and that he is also a thought of someone else's dream.
This article was pretty hard to grasp but I think the purpose of the dream has to deal with the concept of the circle of life. How in the reading the man trying to protect his son finds out that he himself is apart of a dream also makes the story go around in a circle.
The Library of Babel
This story deals with a man who talks about the library that is in his neighborhood. He talks about the history of libraries and books in general and tells tales of suicidal librarians and other crazy events that involved libraries. He talks about the past events that happened in this specific library.
To me, it felt like as if the old man lived through these times, that this events were old memories he had of when he was a child and the affect this library had on him all these years.
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